Golang Job: Engineering Manager, Security

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 210 data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. With Equinix Metal, customers can rapidly deploy automated single-tenant infrastructure and interact with 1,800+ networks and 2,900+ cloud and service providers. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.

We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Job Summary

Equinix Metal, a leading bare metal cloud provider, is looking to grow our software engineering team! If you are an experienced engineering manager or software engineer looking to take the next step and want to help build out services that will affect how the next generation of infrastructure and hardware is delivered to the world, join our team! This role can be remote or based in one of our office locations.

Responsibilities

In this position, you will be the manager of a small, focused team in charge of securing and automating the security for our engineering platform. You’ll help teams navigate the complexities of securing their applications, as well as lead the software development efforts that will help them achieve that with the least amount of frustration and friction. You’ll also:

• Live and breathe the developer experience with the platform we are responsible for caring and feeding for - our customers are Equinix Metal engineers, and they deserve the best

• Deal with ambiguity and drive to the heart of problems - when developing / managing an internal platform, sometimes you participate in the “what” just as much as the “how”

• Recruit, lead, and manage a global team of software engineers

• Mentor the individuals on your team and track progress of professional development

• Deeply care about technology, your craft and about the success of your team and the company. Have strong intrinsic motivators to help drive self-improvement

• Help drive software design and improve our system architecture, making sure components are built in a way that is conducive for rapid development and deployment onto our platform

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering or management

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering is a nice to have, but not required

• Strong organization and time management skills

• You enjoy helping people succeed and finding solutions to difficult technical challenges

• You are a natural leader, helping to educate and develop those around you

• Ideal candidates have some Kubernetes experience

• Ideal candidates have proficiency with at least one programming language; preference given to candidates with Golang experience

• Ideal candidates have some experience with security best practices and tooling

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.